)
of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Fa- (3.
of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Fa- (3.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Heroid.
xv.
57.
) (L.
S.
]
Hippocratem sunt, Collectio. Itis uncertain whether ERY'CIUS ('Epúkios), the name of two poets,
he was himself a physician, or merely a gramma- whose epigrams are in the Greek Anthology. The
rian, but he appears to have written (or at least to one is called a Cyzicene, the other a Thessalian ;
have intended to write) some other works on Hip- and, from the internal evidence of the epigrams, it
pocrates besides that which we now possess (pp. is probable that the one lived in the time of Sulla,
23, 208, ed. Franz). He must have lived (and and about B. C. 84, the other under the emperor
probably at Rome) in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. Their epigrams are so mixed up, that it
Nero, A. D. 54—68, as his work is dedicated to his is impossible to distinguish accurately between
archiater, Andromachus. It is curious as contain them, and we cannot even determine which of the
ing the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates two poets was the elder, and which the younger.
that exists, in which we find the titles of several We only know that the greater number of the epi-
treatises now lost, and also miss several that now grams are of a pastoral nature, and belong to Ery-
form part of the Hippocratic collection. The rest cius of Cyzicus. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 295; Ja-
of the work consists of a glossary, in which the cobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 891,
words are at present arranged in a partially 892; Fabric. Bibl. Graec, vol. iv. p. 474. ) (P. S. )
alphabetical manner, though it appears that this ERYMANTHUS ('Epúpavsos). 1. A river-
mode of arrangement is not that which was adopted god in Arcadia. who had a temple and a statue at -
by the author himself. It was first published in Psophis. (Paus. viii. 24. $ 6; Aelian, V. H. ii. 33. )
Greek, 8vo. , 1564, Paris. in H. Stephani Dictiona- 2. A son of Apollo, was blinded by Aphrodite,
rium Medicum ; a Latin translation by Barth. because he had seen her in the bath. Apollo, in
Eustachius appeared in 1566, 4to. , Venet. ; the revenge, metamorphosed himself into a wild boar,
last and best edition is that by Franz, Lips. 1780, aud killed Adonis. (Ptolem. Heph. i. 306. )
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62
ESAIAS.
ESAIAS.
3. A son of Aristas and father of Arrhon, or, determined to quit the world ; one of them distri-
according to others, the son of Arcas and father of buted his whole property to the poor, the other
Xanthus. (Paus. viii. 24. § 1. ) (L. S. ] expended his in the foundation of a monastic and
E'RYMAS ('Epúuas), the name of three different charitable establishment. If the Orations men-
Trojans. (Hom. Il. xvi. 345, 415; Virg. Aen. ix. tioned below are correctly ascribed to the Esaias
702. )
(L. S. ] of Palladius, the first oration (which in the Latin
ERYSICHTHON ('Epuolxowr), that is, the version begins “Qui mecum manere vultis, audite,"
tearer up of the earth. 1. A son of Triopas, who &c. ) enables us to identify him as the brother that
cut down trees in a grove sacred to Demeter, for founded the monastery. Rufinus in his Lives of
which he was punished by the goddess with fearful the Fathers, quoted by Tillemont, mentions an anec-
hunger. (Callim. Hymn. in Ccr. 34, &c. ; Ov. Met. dote of Esaias and some other persons of monastic
viii. 738, &c. ) Müller (Dor. ii. 10. 3) thinks character, visiting the confessor Anuph or Anub
that the traditions concerning Triopas and 'Erysich-|(who had suffered in the great persecution of Dio
thon (from epevelpn, robigo) belong to an agricul- cletian, but had survived that time) just before his
tural religion, which, at the same time, refers to the death. If we suppose Esains to have been com
infernal regions.
paratively young, this account is not inconsistent
2. A son of Cecrops and Agraulos, died without with Cave's opinion, that Esaias flourished A. D.
issue in his father's lifetime, on his return from 370. Assemanni supposes that he lived about the
Delos, from whence he brought to Athens the an. close of the fourth century. He appears to have
cient image of Eileithyia. His tomb was shewn lived in Egypt.
at Prasiae. (Apollod. iii. 14. § 2 ; Paus. i. 18. $ 5, There are dispersed throngh the European li-
2. & 5, 31. & 2. )
(L. S. ) braries a number of works in MS. ascribed to Esaias,
ERYTHRUS (Epulpos) A son of Leucon, who is variously designated “Abbas," " Presbyter,"
and grandson of Athamas. He was one of the “ Eremita," " Anachoreta. " They are chiefly in
suitors of Hippodameia, and the town of Erythrae, Greek. Some of them have been published, either
in Boeotia, was believed to have derived its name in the original or in a Latin version. Assemanni
from him. (Paus, vi. 21. 97; Müller, Orchom. p. enumerates some Arabic and several Syriac works
210. 2nd edit. )
of Esaias, which, judging from their titles, are ver-
2. A son of Rhadamanthus, who led the Ery- sions in those tongues of the known works of this
thraeans from Crete to the Ionian Erythrae. (Paus. writer. It is not ascertained whether Esaias the
vii. 3. & 4. ) There are two other mythical per- writer is the Esaias mentioned by Palladius. Car-
sonages of the name of Erythrus, or Erythrius, dinal Bellarmin, followed by the editors of the
from whom the Boeotian Erythrae, and the Ery- | Bibliotheca Patrum, places the writer in the seventh
thraean Sea, are said to have received their names century subsequent to the time of Palladius ; but
respectively. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 267 ; Steph. the character of the works supports the opinion that
Byz. 8. v. 'Epub pá ; Curtius, viii. 9. ) [L. S. ) they belong to the Egyptian monk.
ERYX ("Epuk), the name of three mythical (1. ) Chapters on the ascetic and peacrful life
personages. (Diod. iv. 83; Apollod. č. 5. S 10; (Kepárala nepl do khoews wal viouxias), published
Ov. Met. v. 196. )
[L. S. ) in Greek and Latin in the Thesaurus Asceticus of
ERYXI'MACHUS ('Eputiuayos ), a Greek Pierre Possin, pp. 315-325; 4to. Paris, 1684. As
physician, who lived in the fourth century B. C. , some MSS. contain portions of this work in con-
and is introduced in the Convivium of Plato (p. nexion with other passages not contained in it, it is
185) as telling Aristophanes how to cure the probable that the Chapters are incomplete. One
hiccup, and in the mean time making a speech MS. in the King's Library at Paris is described as
himself on love or harmony ("Epws), which he * Esaiae Abbatis Capita Ascetica, in duos libros
illustrated from his own profession. [W. A. G. ) dirisa, quorum unusquisque praecepta centum com-
ESAIAS ('Hoatas), sometimes written in Latin plectitur. "
ISAIAS. 1. Of CYPRUS, lived probably in the (2. ) Precepla seu Consilia posita tironibus, a
reign of John VII. (Palaeologus) about A. D. Latin version of sixty-eight Short Precepts, pub-
1430. Nicolaus Comnenus mentions a work of lished by Lucas Holstenius, in his Codex Regula-
his, described as Oratio de Lipsanomachis, as ex- rum Monasticarum. (vol. i. p. 6. ed. Augsburg,
tant in MS. at Rome; and his Epistie in defence 1759.
)
of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Fa- (3. ) Orationes. A Latin version of twenty-
ther and the Son, in reply to Nicolaus Sclengias, nine discourses of Esaias was published by
is given by Leo Allatius in his Graecia Ortho Pietro Francesco Zini, with some ascetic writ.
dora, both in the original Greek and in a Latin ings of Nilus and others, 8vo. Venice, 1574, and
version. Two epistles of Michael Glycas, ad. have been reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum.
dressed to the much revered (TiulWTÁTW) monk They are not all orations, but, in one or two in-
Esaias are published in the Deliciae Eruditorum stances at least, are collections of apophthegms or
of Giovanni Lami, who is disposed to identify the sayings. Some MSS. contain more than twenty-
person addressed with Esaias of Cyprus. (Fabric. nine orations : one in the King's Library at Paris
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 395; Wharton, Appendir to contains thirty, wanting the beginning of the first;
Cave's Hist. Lill. vol. ii. p. 130, ed. Oxford, 1740-3; and one, mentioned by Harless, is said to contain
Lami, Deliciae Eruditorum, vol. viii. pp. 236-279, thirty-one, differently arranged from those in the
Florence, 1739. )
Bibliotheca Patrum.
2. Of EGYPT. Palladius in the biographical (4. ) Dubitationes in l'isionem Ezechielis. A
notices which make up what is usually termed his MS. in the Royal Library of the Escurial in Spain,
Lausiac History, mentions two brothers, Paesius is described by Montfaucon (Bibliotheca Billiotke-
(Ilariolos) and Esaias, the sons of a merchant, carum, p. 619) as containing Sermones et Dubita-
Inaró pouos, by which some understand a Spanish tiones in Visionem Ezechielis, by “ Esaias Abbas. *
merchant. Upon the death of their father they | The Sermones or discourses are probably those men-
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ESQUILINUS
33
ETEONICUS.
em disto
the other
astic and
De Eva
the Latin
3, ancite,"
mother chat
is Lisa
ns an aner
f monastic
or Art)
on of Dio-
before s
been con
Eneoncstent
sished A. D.
d about the
ears to have
European -
ed to Esaias,
- Presbyter,"
re chieir in
lished, either
Assemang
Syriac works
titles, are ter
works of this
er Esaias the
alladios. Cas
Editors of the
in the serenta
Palladius ; bat
he opinion that
tioned above. Of the Dubitationes no further ac- ETEARCHUS ('Etéapxos). 1. An ancient
count is given ; but the subject, as far as it is indi- king of the city of Àxus in Crete, who, according
cated by the title, renders it very doubtful if the to the Cyrenacan accounts, was the grandfather of
work belongs to the Egyptian Monk.
Battus I. , king of Cyrene. The story of the way
The Ascetica and Opuscula of Esaias, described in which he was induced to plan the death his
in Catalogues, are perhaps portions or extracts of daughter Phronime, at the instigation of her step-
the works noticed above. This is probably the mother, and of the manner in which she was pre-
case with the passages given by Cotelerius among served and taken to Cyrene, is told by Herodotus
the "Sayings of the Fathers. " (Palladius, Hist. (iv. 154, 155).
Inusiaca, c. 18. ed. Meursius, Leyden, 1616; 2. A king of the Ammonians, mentioned by
Tillemont, Mémoires, vol. vii. p. 426 ; Cave, Hist. Herodotus (ii. 32) as the authority for some ac-
Lil. vol. i. p. 254, ed. Oxford, 1740-3; Billiothe-counts which he heard from certain Cyrenaeans of
ca Patrum, vol. xii. p. 384, &c. ed. Lyon, 1677 ; an expedition into the interior of Africa undertaken
Assemanni, Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. iii. par. i. by five youths of the Nasamones. (C. P. M. )
p. 46, note ; Cotelerius, Ecclesiuc Graecae Monu- ETEMUNDIS, the name prefixed to an epi-
menta, vol. i. p. 445, &c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. , gram of two lines to be found in Burmann, Anthol.
vol. ix. p. 282, vol. xi. p. 395, Bibliotheca Mediae Lat. ii. 283, or n. 547, ed. Meyer, but of whom
et Infimae Latinitatis, vol. ii. p. 109 ; Catalogus nothing is known.
(W. R. )
MSlorum Bibliothecae Regiac, vol. ii. , Paris, 1701. ) ETEOCLES ('Eteokañs. ) 1. A son of Andreus
3. The Persian. The Acta of the Martyrs, and Evippe, or of Cephisus, who was said to have
Saints Jonas and Barachisius in the Acla Sunc- been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites
torum of the Bollandists, are a version of a Greek at Orchomenos, in Boeotia. (Paus. ix. 34. 9 5, 35.
narrative, then, and probably still, extant in the Li- $ 1; Theocrit. xvi. 104 ; Schol ad Pind. Ol. xiv. );
brary of the Republic of Venice, purporting to be Müller, Orchom. p. 128. )
drawn up by Esaias. the son of Adam, one of the 2. A son of Oedipus and Jocaste. After his
horsemen (“eques,") of Sapor, King of Persia, un- father's flight from Thebes, he and his brother
der whom the martyrs suffered. (acta Sanctorum, Polyneices undertook the government of Thebes
Martii, vol. iii. p. 770, &c. ) (J. C. M. ] by turns. But, in consequence of disputes having
ESQUILI'NUS, a name of several families at arisen between the brothers, Polyneices fled to
Rome, which they obtained from living on the Adrastus, who then brought about the expedition of
Esquiline hill. The name also occurs as an agno- the Seven against Thebes. [ADRASTUS. ) When many
men to distinguish a member or a branch of a par- of the heroes had fallen, Eteocles and Polyneices
ticular family from others of the same name. resolved upon deciding the contest by a single com-
1. An agnomen of P. Licinius Calvus, both bat, but both the brothers fell. (Apollod. iii. 5. $ 8,
father and son. (Calvus, Nos. 1, 2. ]
6. SS 1, 5, &c. ; Paus. ix. 5. Ø 6; comp. Eurip.
2. An agnomen of L. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS Phoen. 67; JOCASTE. )
('L. S. )
and Q. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS, though, according ETEOCLUS ('Etéokłos) a son of Iphis, was,
to the Fasti, Augurinus would be the agnomen and according to some traditions, one of the seven heroes
Esquilinus the cognomen. [AUGURINUS II. , Nos. who went with Adrastus against Thebes. He had
3, 4. )
to make the attack upon the Neïtian gate, where
3. L. or M. Sergius Esquilinus, one of the he was opposed by Megareus. (Aeschyl. Sept. c.
second decemvirate, B. C. 450. (Liv. iii. 35 ; Theb. 444, &c. ; Apollod. iii. 6. § 3. ) He is said to
Dionys. x. 58, xi. 23. )
have won a prize in the foot-race at the Nemean
4. An agnomen of the VIRGINII Tricosti. games, and to have been killed by Leades. (A pol-
Almost all the members of the Virginia gens had lod. iii. 6. 88 4, 8. ) His statue stood at Delphi,
the surname Tricostus, and those who dwelt on the among those of the other Argive heroes. (Paus. x.
Esquiline had the surname Esquilinus, just as 10. § 2 ; Eustath.
Hippocratem sunt, Collectio. Itis uncertain whether ERY'CIUS ('Epúkios), the name of two poets,
he was himself a physician, or merely a gramma- whose epigrams are in the Greek Anthology. The
rian, but he appears to have written (or at least to one is called a Cyzicene, the other a Thessalian ;
have intended to write) some other works on Hip- and, from the internal evidence of the epigrams, it
pocrates besides that which we now possess (pp. is probable that the one lived in the time of Sulla,
23, 208, ed. Franz). He must have lived (and and about B. C. 84, the other under the emperor
probably at Rome) in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. Their epigrams are so mixed up, that it
Nero, A. D. 54—68, as his work is dedicated to his is impossible to distinguish accurately between
archiater, Andromachus. It is curious as contain them, and we cannot even determine which of the
ing the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates two poets was the elder, and which the younger.
that exists, in which we find the titles of several We only know that the greater number of the epi-
treatises now lost, and also miss several that now grams are of a pastoral nature, and belong to Ery-
form part of the Hippocratic collection. The rest cius of Cyzicus. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 295; Ja-
of the work consists of a glossary, in which the cobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 891,
words are at present arranged in a partially 892; Fabric. Bibl. Graec, vol. iv. p. 474. ) (P. S. )
alphabetical manner, though it appears that this ERYMANTHUS ('Epúpavsos). 1. A river-
mode of arrangement is not that which was adopted god in Arcadia. who had a temple and a statue at -
by the author himself. It was first published in Psophis. (Paus. viii. 24. $ 6; Aelian, V. H. ii. 33. )
Greek, 8vo. , 1564, Paris. in H. Stephani Dictiona- 2. A son of Apollo, was blinded by Aphrodite,
rium Medicum ; a Latin translation by Barth. because he had seen her in the bath. Apollo, in
Eustachius appeared in 1566, 4to. , Venet. ; the revenge, metamorphosed himself into a wild boar,
last and best edition is that by Franz, Lips. 1780, aud killed Adonis. (Ptolem. Heph. i. 306. )
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ESAIAS.
ESAIAS.
3. A son of Aristas and father of Arrhon, or, determined to quit the world ; one of them distri-
according to others, the son of Arcas and father of buted his whole property to the poor, the other
Xanthus. (Paus. viii. 24. § 1. ) (L. S. ] expended his in the foundation of a monastic and
E'RYMAS ('Epúuas), the name of three different charitable establishment. If the Orations men-
Trojans. (Hom. Il. xvi. 345, 415; Virg. Aen. ix. tioned below are correctly ascribed to the Esaias
702. )
(L. S. ] of Palladius, the first oration (which in the Latin
ERYSICHTHON ('Epuolxowr), that is, the version begins “Qui mecum manere vultis, audite,"
tearer up of the earth. 1. A son of Triopas, who &c. ) enables us to identify him as the brother that
cut down trees in a grove sacred to Demeter, for founded the monastery. Rufinus in his Lives of
which he was punished by the goddess with fearful the Fathers, quoted by Tillemont, mentions an anec-
hunger. (Callim. Hymn. in Ccr. 34, &c. ; Ov. Met. dote of Esaias and some other persons of monastic
viii. 738, &c. ) Müller (Dor. ii. 10. 3) thinks character, visiting the confessor Anuph or Anub
that the traditions concerning Triopas and 'Erysich-|(who had suffered in the great persecution of Dio
thon (from epevelpn, robigo) belong to an agricul- cletian, but had survived that time) just before his
tural religion, which, at the same time, refers to the death. If we suppose Esains to have been com
infernal regions.
paratively young, this account is not inconsistent
2. A son of Cecrops and Agraulos, died without with Cave's opinion, that Esaias flourished A. D.
issue in his father's lifetime, on his return from 370. Assemanni supposes that he lived about the
Delos, from whence he brought to Athens the an. close of the fourth century. He appears to have
cient image of Eileithyia. His tomb was shewn lived in Egypt.
at Prasiae. (Apollod. iii. 14. § 2 ; Paus. i. 18. $ 5, There are dispersed throngh the European li-
2. & 5, 31. & 2. )
(L. S. ) braries a number of works in MS. ascribed to Esaias,
ERYTHRUS (Epulpos) A son of Leucon, who is variously designated “Abbas," " Presbyter,"
and grandson of Athamas. He was one of the “ Eremita," " Anachoreta. " They are chiefly in
suitors of Hippodameia, and the town of Erythrae, Greek. Some of them have been published, either
in Boeotia, was believed to have derived its name in the original or in a Latin version. Assemanni
from him. (Paus, vi. 21. 97; Müller, Orchom. p. enumerates some Arabic and several Syriac works
210. 2nd edit. )
of Esaias, which, judging from their titles, are ver-
2. A son of Rhadamanthus, who led the Ery- sions in those tongues of the known works of this
thraeans from Crete to the Ionian Erythrae. (Paus. writer. It is not ascertained whether Esaias the
vii. 3. & 4. ) There are two other mythical per- writer is the Esaias mentioned by Palladius. Car-
sonages of the name of Erythrus, or Erythrius, dinal Bellarmin, followed by the editors of the
from whom the Boeotian Erythrae, and the Ery- | Bibliotheca Patrum, places the writer in the seventh
thraean Sea, are said to have received their names century subsequent to the time of Palladius ; but
respectively. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 267 ; Steph. the character of the works supports the opinion that
Byz. 8. v. 'Epub pá ; Curtius, viii. 9. ) [L. S. ) they belong to the Egyptian monk.
ERYX ("Epuk), the name of three mythical (1. ) Chapters on the ascetic and peacrful life
personages. (Diod. iv. 83; Apollod. č. 5. S 10; (Kepárala nepl do khoews wal viouxias), published
Ov. Met. v. 196. )
[L. S. ) in Greek and Latin in the Thesaurus Asceticus of
ERYXI'MACHUS ('Eputiuayos ), a Greek Pierre Possin, pp. 315-325; 4to. Paris, 1684. As
physician, who lived in the fourth century B. C. , some MSS. contain portions of this work in con-
and is introduced in the Convivium of Plato (p. nexion with other passages not contained in it, it is
185) as telling Aristophanes how to cure the probable that the Chapters are incomplete. One
hiccup, and in the mean time making a speech MS. in the King's Library at Paris is described as
himself on love or harmony ("Epws), which he * Esaiae Abbatis Capita Ascetica, in duos libros
illustrated from his own profession. [W. A. G. ) dirisa, quorum unusquisque praecepta centum com-
ESAIAS ('Hoatas), sometimes written in Latin plectitur. "
ISAIAS. 1. Of CYPRUS, lived probably in the (2. ) Precepla seu Consilia posita tironibus, a
reign of John VII. (Palaeologus) about A. D. Latin version of sixty-eight Short Precepts, pub-
1430. Nicolaus Comnenus mentions a work of lished by Lucas Holstenius, in his Codex Regula-
his, described as Oratio de Lipsanomachis, as ex- rum Monasticarum. (vol. i. p. 6. ed. Augsburg,
tant in MS. at Rome; and his Epistie in defence 1759.
)
of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Fa- (3. ) Orationes. A Latin version of twenty-
ther and the Son, in reply to Nicolaus Sclengias, nine discourses of Esaias was published by
is given by Leo Allatius in his Graecia Ortho Pietro Francesco Zini, with some ascetic writ.
dora, both in the original Greek and in a Latin ings of Nilus and others, 8vo. Venice, 1574, and
version. Two epistles of Michael Glycas, ad. have been reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum.
dressed to the much revered (TiulWTÁTW) monk They are not all orations, but, in one or two in-
Esaias are published in the Deliciae Eruditorum stances at least, are collections of apophthegms or
of Giovanni Lami, who is disposed to identify the sayings. Some MSS. contain more than twenty-
person addressed with Esaias of Cyprus. (Fabric. nine orations : one in the King's Library at Paris
Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 395; Wharton, Appendir to contains thirty, wanting the beginning of the first;
Cave's Hist. Lill. vol. ii. p. 130, ed. Oxford, 1740-3; and one, mentioned by Harless, is said to contain
Lami, Deliciae Eruditorum, vol. viii. pp. 236-279, thirty-one, differently arranged from those in the
Florence, 1739. )
Bibliotheca Patrum.
2. Of EGYPT. Palladius in the biographical (4. ) Dubitationes in l'isionem Ezechielis. A
notices which make up what is usually termed his MS. in the Royal Library of the Escurial in Spain,
Lausiac History, mentions two brothers, Paesius is described by Montfaucon (Bibliotheca Billiotke-
(Ilariolos) and Esaias, the sons of a merchant, carum, p. 619) as containing Sermones et Dubita-
Inaró pouos, by which some understand a Spanish tiones in Visionem Ezechielis, by “ Esaias Abbas. *
merchant. Upon the death of their father they | The Sermones or discourses are probably those men-
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ESQUILINUS
33
ETEONICUS.
em disto
the other
astic and
De Eva
the Latin
3, ancite,"
mother chat
is Lisa
ns an aner
f monastic
or Art)
on of Dio-
before s
been con
Eneoncstent
sished A. D.
d about the
ears to have
European -
ed to Esaias,
- Presbyter,"
re chieir in
lished, either
Assemang
Syriac works
titles, are ter
works of this
er Esaias the
alladios. Cas
Editors of the
in the serenta
Palladius ; bat
he opinion that
tioned above. Of the Dubitationes no further ac- ETEARCHUS ('Etéapxos). 1. An ancient
count is given ; but the subject, as far as it is indi- king of the city of Àxus in Crete, who, according
cated by the title, renders it very doubtful if the to the Cyrenacan accounts, was the grandfather of
work belongs to the Egyptian Monk.
Battus I. , king of Cyrene. The story of the way
The Ascetica and Opuscula of Esaias, described in which he was induced to plan the death his
in Catalogues, are perhaps portions or extracts of daughter Phronime, at the instigation of her step-
the works noticed above. This is probably the mother, and of the manner in which she was pre-
case with the passages given by Cotelerius among served and taken to Cyrene, is told by Herodotus
the "Sayings of the Fathers. " (Palladius, Hist. (iv. 154, 155).
Inusiaca, c. 18. ed. Meursius, Leyden, 1616; 2. A king of the Ammonians, mentioned by
Tillemont, Mémoires, vol. vii. p. 426 ; Cave, Hist. Herodotus (ii. 32) as the authority for some ac-
Lil. vol. i. p. 254, ed. Oxford, 1740-3; Billiothe-counts which he heard from certain Cyrenaeans of
ca Patrum, vol. xii. p. 384, &c. ed. Lyon, 1677 ; an expedition into the interior of Africa undertaken
Assemanni, Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. iii. par. i. by five youths of the Nasamones. (C. P. M. )
p. 46, note ; Cotelerius, Ecclesiuc Graecae Monu- ETEMUNDIS, the name prefixed to an epi-
menta, vol. i. p. 445, &c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. , gram of two lines to be found in Burmann, Anthol.
vol. ix. p. 282, vol. xi. p. 395, Bibliotheca Mediae Lat. ii. 283, or n. 547, ed. Meyer, but of whom
et Infimae Latinitatis, vol. ii. p. 109 ; Catalogus nothing is known.
(W. R. )
MSlorum Bibliothecae Regiac, vol. ii. , Paris, 1701. ) ETEOCLES ('Eteokañs. ) 1. A son of Andreus
3. The Persian. The Acta of the Martyrs, and Evippe, or of Cephisus, who was said to have
Saints Jonas and Barachisius in the Acla Sunc- been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites
torum of the Bollandists, are a version of a Greek at Orchomenos, in Boeotia. (Paus. ix. 34. 9 5, 35.
narrative, then, and probably still, extant in the Li- $ 1; Theocrit. xvi. 104 ; Schol ad Pind. Ol. xiv. );
brary of the Republic of Venice, purporting to be Müller, Orchom. p. 128. )
drawn up by Esaias. the son of Adam, one of the 2. A son of Oedipus and Jocaste. After his
horsemen (“eques,") of Sapor, King of Persia, un- father's flight from Thebes, he and his brother
der whom the martyrs suffered. (acta Sanctorum, Polyneices undertook the government of Thebes
Martii, vol. iii. p. 770, &c. ) (J. C. M. ] by turns. But, in consequence of disputes having
ESQUILI'NUS, a name of several families at arisen between the brothers, Polyneices fled to
Rome, which they obtained from living on the Adrastus, who then brought about the expedition of
Esquiline hill. The name also occurs as an agno- the Seven against Thebes. [ADRASTUS. ) When many
men to distinguish a member or a branch of a par- of the heroes had fallen, Eteocles and Polyneices
ticular family from others of the same name. resolved upon deciding the contest by a single com-
1. An agnomen of P. Licinius Calvus, both bat, but both the brothers fell. (Apollod. iii. 5. $ 8,
father and son. (Calvus, Nos. 1, 2. ]
6. SS 1, 5, &c. ; Paus. ix. 5. Ø 6; comp. Eurip.
2. An agnomen of L. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS Phoen. 67; JOCASTE. )
('L. S. )
and Q. MINUCIUS AUGURINUS, though, according ETEOCLUS ('Etéokłos) a son of Iphis, was,
to the Fasti, Augurinus would be the agnomen and according to some traditions, one of the seven heroes
Esquilinus the cognomen. [AUGURINUS II. , Nos. who went with Adrastus against Thebes. He had
3, 4. )
to make the attack upon the Neïtian gate, where
3. L. or M. Sergius Esquilinus, one of the he was opposed by Megareus. (Aeschyl. Sept. c.
second decemvirate, B. C. 450. (Liv. iii. 35 ; Theb. 444, &c. ; Apollod. iii. 6. § 3. ) He is said to
Dionys. x. 58, xi. 23. )
have won a prize in the foot-race at the Nemean
4. An agnomen of the VIRGINII Tricosti. games, and to have been killed by Leades. (A pol-
Almost all the members of the Virginia gens had lod. iii. 6. 88 4, 8. ) His statue stood at Delphi,
the surname Tricostus, and those who dwelt on the among those of the other Argive heroes. (Paus. x.
Esquiline had the surname Esquilinus, just as 10. § 2 ; Eustath.
